Do you want to make a real difference to someone's life?Do you have previous experience working in a Personal Home
Care, Care Assistant or Support Worker role?

If so, this could be the job for you.

Newcross Healthcare are seeking experienced Personal Care Assistants
to provide the highest quality of care and support to our service
users living with additional healthcare needs in their own homes in
Portsmouth, Fareham, Gosport, Waterlooville, Hayling Island,
Havant and the surrounding local areas.

Working for Newcross is entirely flexible, build your own rota,
working full or part time hours to suit your schedule. You will
benefit from the security of a permanent job with guaranteed minimum
hours and a local line manager.

We have a range of shifts available from long days and nights, to
evenings and weekends. For a limited time, you will receive free a DBS
check and uniform when you join our amazing team in Bournemouth.

Apply now to find out more.

What can you expect from your caring role?

As a Personal Care Assistant, you will be providing life-enhancing
care to our service users living with additional healthcare needs in
their own homes.

Changing the life of another person is an incredible feeling and it
is completely within your grasp. Your responsibilities could include;
personal care, helping with social activities, aiding with clinical
needs and assisting with any other additional services that will
enable our service users to live as independently as possible, in line
with their personalised care plan.

Compassion and respect are key to this role. The ideal applicant will
have a true vocation for care and always seek to provide
life-enhancing support that also protects the dignity of the service user.

We are ideally seeking individuals with prior experience in
any of the following areas: learning disabilities, autism,
tracheostomies, suctioning, stomas, ventilators and/or challenging
behaviours, however any previous experience in a complex care role
could be accepted.

Skills & Opportunities

This is a great chance for you to improve your skill set with a range
of free training programmes provided by Newcross. Want to enhance your
clinical knowledge? Why not enrol on a Newcross course in PEG,
Tracheostomy, Epilepsy and medication delivery? Or gain experience
caring for those with spinal and brain injuries or neurodegenerative conditions.

With Newcross you could also have the opportunity to study towards a
range of national vocational qualifications NVQ/SVQ covering a wide
variety of levels and subjects.

If you want to develop your knowledge and further your career, this
could be the opportunity for you.

What will you benefit from?

- Salary of up to £15.38/hr including holiday pay

- Permanent contract with weekly pay and flexible hours

- Agreed mileage payments for most clients

- FREE criminal record check (DBS) and
FREE uniform

- Ongoing training and development available free through credits
earned as you work

- Recommend a Friend scheme paying up to £500 per successful referral

- Client specific inductions

- 24-hour support through a dedicated central team and clinical
governance made up of lead nurses.

- Support of a local line manager, in-house office support and a
designated field team leader.

Why should you join Newcross?

We offer over 200 training courses to ensure that our employees
always have the opportunity to develop in their role, learn new skills
and progress further in their career.

We are not a 'zero hours' employer. All of our healthcare
professionals have minimum hours guaranteed in their contracts, giving
you the security of a steady income, with the flexibility to choose
your own hours - so you can have the work-life balance that suits you.

What do you need for this role?

The right to live and work in the UK

At least 3 months' previous paid experience working in a care
environment in the UK within the last 3 years

Referee contact details for your current place of work, including
a manager who can comment on your clinical ability, and for all
employments in the past 3 years

A certificate confirming your participation in a practical Moving
and Handling course in the last 12 months or are willing to enrol on
a practical Moving and Handling course with Newcross

You will need access to a smartphone, iPhone (5s or later), iPad
or iPod touch compatible with IOS 8.0 (or later) or Android device
with a 4.3 operating system (or later), with internet access to
manage your rota via our homecare app

Access to your own vehicle is desirable with many packages of care
having agreed mileage payments

If you have an NVQ2 / SVQ2 in Health and Social Care or currently
work in a care assistant job you could be fast-tracked through our
recruitment process.

Click the Apply Now button to begin your application

Newcross Healthcare Solutions is committed to promoting equal
opportunities and nothing in this job advert is intended to
discriminate against anyone in any way.